Philip Emeagwali Quotes
Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.
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I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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You gotta remember: we're musicians... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!
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I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.
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In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.
